The totalitarian party absorbs the Crown’s arbitration function and poses as impartial State

Evidence

With the totalitarian party, these formulae lose their meaning; hence the institutions which functioned within the context of such formulae become less important. But the function itself is incorporated in the party, which will exalt the abstract concept of the “State”, and seek by various means to give the impression that it is working actively and effectively as an “impartial force”. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 663

Categorization

• XREF: Useful scaffold for how bureaucratic/state reason can mask group interest — carries toward analyses of state racism draped in neutrality.